After the Helsinki Summit, and standing beside Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump said the following words loud and clear for all the world: "I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics." And that he did. The fall-out has been enormous among the 'elite class' - from calls for military coups to denunciations of treason.

In fact, here is former CIA Director John Brennan on the Helsinki summit: "Donald Trump's press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' It was nothing short of treasonous." Most Democrats agreed.

A recent poll of 1,011 registered voters found that 71 percent of Republicans don't give a hoot about the hysteria surrounding the 'Helsinki summit' and still support Trump's relationship with Russia, and close to 70 percent actually approve of Trump's handling of the Summit. In fact, the number of Republicans who believe that Russia is an ally has actually risen from 22 percent in 2014 to 40 percent in July of 2018, right before the Summit. Even more interesting is a recent bipartisan gallup poll showed that a majority of Americans of any political stripe do not even rank the "Russia collusion" nonsense among the top problems facing the US!

If the results of these polls are accurate, then the massive media campaign to smear Trump as a 'traitor' is only making the hysterical MSM and the corrupt elite they represent that much more repugnant in the eye of the majority of the American people..

But enough about polls, what does the law say - can Trump be legitimately labeled a 'traitor'? Here we encounter a reality split - one reality for egomaniacs like Brennan and the Democratic Party faithful, and another for those living in the real world. Here is how treason is defined:

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

'Adhering to our enemies' means providing 'aid and comfort' to anyone with whom the US is in open hostilities or on whom we have declared war. Though there is no declared war between US and Russia, thanks to the unelected 'intelligence community' there has been a string of open hostilities between the US and Russia throughout the war in Syria, largely due to the US arming terrorists in the country, and the totally unsubstantiated claims that Russia is guilty of 'hacking American elections'. So, the Deep State no doubt sees this as yet another nail in the Trump coffin.

But speaking of treason, doesn't funding, training and arming groups like Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Al Nusra also constitute giving 'aid and comfort' to America's enemies and therefore fit the definition of treason?? And as such, is it not the collective of US intelligence agencies that are the real traitors here?

Under John Brennan's watch the CIA was caught using foreign airlines to smuggles tons of weaponry to Al-Qaeda and associates in Syria. The linked report featured 'exhaustive documentation' proving beyond a shadow of a doubt CIA complicity in the arming of terrorist groups. Obama admitted he and the 'intelligence community' allowed for the rise of ISIS because it was convenient for them. And of course the Pentagon was caught running a giant weapons pipeline from the Balkans to Iraq and Syria, arming jihadis along the way.

So, if we want to talk treason, then by all means let's do so. But let's talk about the real treason that has been festering at the heart of the USA for decades.

Corey Schink was born and raised in the Midwestern United States, where he worked on farms and as a welder, musician, and social worker. His interests in government, philosophy and history led to his writing for SOTT in 2012 and to becoming a SOTT editor and Truth Perspective co-host in 2014. He now resides in North Carolina, where he enjoys the magnificent views of the Appalachian Mountains.

Reader Comments

An interesting hypothetical question. What are the intelligence agencies in the US at this time?

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death , or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

Now if one supposes that instead the enemies are the peoples of the US, are they the enemies, simply because, they don't think the right way, don't vote the right way,

So I guess, my question, who are the terrorists?

By giving aid and comfort (to the MSM) does this mean that the MSM have a right to tear apart the peoples within the United States, to sow dissent and conflict.

To my simplistic mind, isn't giving support, to factions within the US government sowing dissent and discord, dividing the nation, could this be considered an act of Treason between an elected president and also the people.

Just my thoughts.

Treason

the crime of) showing no loyalty to your country, especially by helping its enemies or trying to defeat its government:

The fact that any utterance of an imbecile like John Brennan is covered in the media is proof that the media is united in pushing false memes. Brennan was in a job that should have kept him out of the media spotlight for his entire tenure, but instead he was constantly being quoted and given access to TV news shows.

Now he's unemployed, and shouldn't even be asked what he thinks, but he's still front and center, being showcased as someone who actually knows something.

Under John Brennan's watch the CIA was caught using foreign airlines to smuggles tons of weaponry to Al-Qaeda and associates in Syria.

I can't remember the specifics, but a few years ago I was at a neighborhood party and met a commercial freight pilot. He was speaking in low tones about how strange the business had become. He used to do a lot of flights to and from Europe's major transit hubs. Lately he had been flying to Turkey (and possibly the Balkans, but as I said I can't remember the specifics). If I recall the cargo was not specified and he didn't know, but he seemed at least a little anxious about it. No wonder.

Centuries ago, the media was published by people (mostly men,) who had a political view and wanted to promote it. Today, media is purely and simply a business, which promotes only the profits of its shareholders and owners. Financial considerations (or, more accurately, greed ,) is all that matters. If the public will pay for trivia, they get trivia. If the public wants sensation, they get sensation. If they want pornography, (which might characterize the vast majority of today's MSM,) that is what they will get.

Remember that always, and you will understand most of what the MSM puts out. It is meaningless, most of it, and the rest of it is lies and pure swamp gas.

our founders were anti-government. they were rebels. they were Min-Archist's. (meaning, as little government as possible to keep the peace)

this can be confirmed by a cursory reading of the federalist papers. or the letters that they wrote amongst themselves.

Government Is Like Fire, a Dangerous Servant and a Fearful Master.

it is our American heritage . to be suspicious of our own federal government for they will seek power.

is ignorance of this fact, in 2018.. treasonous? I think so.

"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That " all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people." [XIIth amendment.] To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition." Thomas Jefferson.

"But speaking of treason, doesn't funding, training and arming groups like Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Al Nusra also constitute giving 'aid and comfort' to America's enemies and therefore fit the definition of treason?? And as such, is it not the collective of US intelligence agencies that the real traitors here? "

This is a rhetorical question by the author, as the answer is obviously "YES." What we need to find out is "Why?" This is because the agencies he mentions are packed with American Jews, whose loyalty is NOT to America, but to Israel, which they consider to be their mother country and their homeland. (Whether they are justified in that view or not is another discussion.) As a result, America does what Israel wants, and for Israel, Sunni terrorists like ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Al Nusra are "Good" terrorists, regardless of what they have done to the USA and how many Americans they have killed, while Shiite Hezbollah are the "Bad" terrorists, even though they have never killed a single American.

The problem Israel has with Hezbollah is that it has 65,000 missiles stationed in Southern Lebanon pointed at Israel, including long-range accurate missiles which can blast every city in Israel, missiles which were given to it by Iran, another Shiite country, and allowed to be trans-shipped across Syria from Iran to Lebanon by Bashar Al-Assad. THIS is why Iran, Hezbollah and Assad are enemies of Israel, and thereby become enemies of the USA, although they do not threaten or harm the USA in any way, shape or form.

Another treasonous power in America is the media, all of which - Hollywood, newspapers, TV, magazines, and books, are owned by only six mega-companies, all of which are owned and run by Zionist Jews. The media too, therefore, promotes the interests of Israel, which are not the interests of the USA, and are therefore traitors to the country among whom they live and earn their money.

If Israel and Saudi Arabia (whose influence is due to its oil, which keeps several of the largest corporations in the world rolling in money and able to buy the votes of Congress, and the public who elect them,) should vanish off the face of the earth, peace would descend, not only on the Middle East, but all across the world.

PS: I forgot to mention the US Congress. According to Rep. Cynthia McKinney, one week after publicly pledging allegiance to the USA and its Constitution, and for the first time taking her seat in the House, she was approached and asked to take the secret pledge of allegiance to Israel behind closed doors. She refused, and has been the one-and-only, single Representative to dissent from the absolutely unanimous House resolutions of support for Israel in 2006 when it bombed Lebanon, and in 2008 when it bombed Gaza. (No need to reiterate the Israeli bombing of sewage plants, schools, hospitals and other war crimes, which were supported by the House of Representatives with the sole dissent of Ms. McKinney.) Ms. McKinney alleges that every Congressperson is asked to take this secret pledge on first taking their seat in Congress, which itself is an act of high treason against the USA, according to the definition in the Constitution.

Such as Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff (?) in the White House, who was not only a dual Israeli-US citizen, but also had gone over there and joined the Israeli Army and fought in their wars. For a foreign country, which is the only country ever to attack a US ship, (the Liberty ) killing 37 US sailors, and get away with that act of war against the USA entirely scot-free.

I still regret, as a 7? 6? year old child, as we drove to Florida, (from California, like >75% of my friends) and our rented red station wagon driving by LBJ's ranch (in, say, 65 or 66), how much I RESPECTED IT & HIM!

I HAD A RIGHT TO!

YET, FAR WORSE, HE HAD NO RIGHT - NO FUCKING RIGHT!...like all since him save Carter and - hopefully - Reagan.

Highland Fleet Lute Well, in finding those lyrics/song I came across 'the very great Francis Lai', thereunto/hereuntofore (in fancy lawyerese - and yet a functional word!)* unknown to me (and I'll next hear - I presume - your links.)

R.C.

* Accuse [ja'cuse?] it not!) WHATever.

**I've long ago concluded that you're a musician, {e.g., 'flat-wound strings', or...: RIGHT NOW!: "Long ago, I heard someone say something about everyman" (which literally plays as I type) which (especially at times like these) AND

which all-too-often feels as though it (being a musician) is the singular best thing I've ever done.**

**Save saving several souls - and their lives (which but for the latter I'd never realized the former.)

As I type, it helps... a little bit... to realize what I've lost - and what I must go out and regain. (A far larger proposition.)

We'll see, I guess - or at least I will.

R.C.

*Who each still care for me; yet are likewise from me gone..**

**If I'd ever married, I'd consider each the same as 'ex'es'. I see NO reason why man needs any governmental nor church 'approval' of his word; indeed, that's rather the place where cowards lie - literally.